Comments by antigeekess | San Diego Reader

antigeekess

Sixteen Candles

Oh, of course I'm not saying it's your fault, Pete, or that you were to blame for any of it. I speak as a bad luck/freak magnet myself. No matter what I do right, it comes out wrong. Day late and a dollar short. Story of my life. http://blog.nola.com/notesonneworleans/2008/10/me… Of course... There 'is' that airy-fairy philosophical position that says that we do, in fact, choose our experiences, but don't remember doing so, and can't see, from our current perspective, that it was a matter of choice. Like finding yourself plunked down in the middle of an advanced Calculus class, with absolutely no recollection of having signed up for it. So if we've bitten off more than we can chew (which isn't really possible), we really 'do' have nobody to blame but ourselves. Maximum trouble = maximum growth, which is the name of the game. And it is, in the end, a game. A horribly rough game, the point of which is not to "win," per se, but only to get better at it. In other words, you could choose a life in which you were little more than a spoiled pet (insert your favorite lucky bastard's name here), but it wouldn't take you very far in terms of growth. Some people may have lives like that -- like a 70-year vacation, or something. Perhaps they're just taking a very long break. Whatever it is, they sure are irritating, aren't they? Loved, supported, encouraged, protected, and coddled from birth, never wanting for anything. Scampering around with a big silly grin on their face, sunshine beaming from every orifice, saying things like, "A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet!" I hate those people, and wish them nothing but ill. I wish for them an IRS audit at Christmas, never-ending bad hair days from now on, and the crabs. http://www.hennessy.id.au/quentingeorge/archives/… :)
— October 13, 2009 11:21 a.m.

Sixteen Candles

Hey Pete! Almost missed this one! Yikearoo, Bud. You were just a little trouble magnet, weren't ya?
— October 13, 2009 12:07 a.m.

Dear Mr. Fantasy

I think I know who that couple was. :p
— October 12, 2009 10:07 p.m.

Columbus--The Man, The Myth...The Mercenary!

Well, Pike, it's been said that, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana So, there's that possibility. And contrary to your post, the indigenous cultures of the Americas have not been washed away, try though Columbus and his kind might. In fact, one of the most delightful experiences I've had in the past decade was watching members of some of those cultures show up at the university to tell the clueless white guys "teaching" about their cultures that they were WRONG about a lot of stuff. It just doesn't get any better than that. :) The continued veneration of white and European murderers of the past only serves to sanction the ethnocentricity/Eurocentricity of the revisionist historians who have misinformed us for the last couple hundred years. It's a slap in the face to the existing members of our indigenous cultures, and the memory of their ancestors. That's why.
— October 12, 2009 8:35 p.m.